Cavallo e cavaliere di tre quarti. 1951.
Tempera and India ink.
Bottom center signed and dated. On wove paper. 40.4 x 23 cm (15.9 x 9 in).
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• Marini's sculptural and graphic work is characterized by the initial exchange with the Parisian avant-garde: Giorgio de Chirico, Aristide Maillol, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Alberto Giacometti are among his artistic companions in the 1920s/30s.
• In 1950 he traveled to New York for his first solo exhibition at Curt Valentin's renowned Buchholz Gallery, which would establish his international fame.
• His central theme is horse and rider, symbolic of the relationship between man and animal, culture and nature.
• Marini took part in documenta 1 (1955), II (1959) and III (1964); major retrospectives of his work took place in Zurich in 1962 and in Rome in 1966
• Marini's sculptures, paintings and graphics are in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Accompanied by a written expertise issued by the Fondazione Marino Marini, Pistoia, from September 16, 2021. The work will be included into the catalog raisonné under the number 864.

PROVENANCE: Collection Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Paris.
Private collection Italy (presumably acquired from the above around 1960/70, ever since family-owned).

EXHIBITION: Marino-Azuma-Cavaliere-Ramous, exhibition in cooperation with the Archivio Azuma, Centro studi Alik Cavaliere, Archivio Carlo Ramous and the Fondazione Marino Marini Pistoia, Cortina Arte, Milan, October 12 - November 13, 2021, p. 64 (with illu.).